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Pure life : (or, Rip blue ride x lucky smash zero naked grace set go) / by Marten, Eugene,author.;
After experiencing holes in his mind and memory from a career of punishment on the field become too large and frightening to ignore, retired pro-football star Nineteen travels to the Mosquito Coast of Honduras in search a miracle brain damage treatment forbidden in the U.S. Instead, he finds himself on a journey that plunges him into a darkness more violent and horrific than he could have possibly imagined--at once a fight for his life and to hold onto the shards and fragments of the life hes fighting for.
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Psychological fiction.; Sports fiction.; Novels.; Brain damage; Ex-football players; Football injuries; Medical tourism; Memory; Voyages and travels;
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Dark souls [electronic resource]. by Microsoft Corporation.;
Game.Live through a million deaths & earn your legacy. Enter a dark world filled with despair and threaded by hope where your ability to creatively strategize, learn and overcome unpredictable and unique challenges determines your fate. Dark Souls will demand your absolute concentration, unflinchingly punish your mistakes, but reward your ability to learn from death. Each challenge is a mind game met with endless combinations that will test your ability to creatively strategize a way to conquer unimaginable monsters and progress deeper into this bleak and forbidding environment filled with the un-dead.ESRB Content Rating: M, Mature, 17+ (blood and gore, Partial nudity, violence).DVD compatible with Xbox 360 console ; HDTV 720p/1080i/1080p ; in game Dolby Digital ; content download ; 2-4 player online multiplayer (co-op 2-4) with leaderboards and voice (paid subscription and broadband internet connection required).
Subjects: Computer adventure games; Computer games.; Dark souls (Game); Video games.; Xbox 360 (Video game console);
© c2011., Microsoft Corp.,
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Unforgotten: S2. by Wilson, Andy,film director.; Timimi, Badria,actor.; Ashbourne, Lorraine,actor.; Bonnar, Mark,actor.; Walker, Nicola,actor.; Cavaliero, Rosie,actor.; Bhaskar, Sanjeev,actor.; BBC Studios (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Badria Timimi, Lorraine Ashbourne, Mark Bonnar, Nicola Walker, Rosie Cavaliero, Sanjeev BhaskarOriginally produced by BBC Studios in 2017.When the remnants of a body are found hidden in a river, DCI Cassie Stuart and DI Sunny Khan are faced with an impossible investigation. There are four suspects - they are the pieces of the jigsaw Cassie and Sunny must solve. But the harder they try to put this picture together, the more blurred it becomes. It's a case that will test their relationship in unexpected ways, and question their assumptions about the most damaged and destructive in society. When a victim becomes a criminal, is punishment the same as justice?Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Feature films.; Television series.; Motion pictures.; Drama.;
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Determined : a science of life without free will / by Sapolsky, Robert M.,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."One of our great behavioral scientists, the bestselling author of Behave, plumbs the depths of the science and philosophy of decision-making to mount a devastating case against free will, an argument with profound consequences. Robert Sapolsky's Behave, his now classic account of why humans do good and why they do bad, pointed toward an unsettling conclusion: We may not grasp the precise marriage of nature and nurture that creates the physics and chemistry at the base of human behavior, but that doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Now, in Determined, Sapolsky takes his argument all the way, mounting a brilliant (and in his inimitable way, delightful) full-frontal assault on the pleasant fantasy that there is some separate self telling our biology what to do. Determined offers a marvelous synthesis of what we know about how consciousness works-the tight weave between reason and emotion and between stimulus and response in the moment and over a life. One by one, Sapolsky tackles all the major arguments for free will and takes them out, cutting a path through the thickets of chaos and complexity science and quantum physics, as well as touching ground on some of the wilder shores of philosophy. He shows us that the history of medicine is in no small part the history of learning that fewer and fewer things are somebody's "fault"; for example, for centuries we thought seizures were a sign of demonic possession. Yet, as he acknowledges, it's very hard, and at times impossible, to uncouple from our zeal to judge others and to judge ourselves. Sapolsky applies the new understanding of life beyond free will to some of our most essential questions around punishment, morality, and living well together. By the end, Sapolsky argues that while living our daily lives recognizing that we have no free will is going to be monumentally difficult, doing so is not going to result in anarchy, pointlessness, and existential malaise. Instead, it will make for a much more humane world"--
Subjects: Free will and determinism.;
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The Dark Heart of Russia : A Journey Through Putin's Empire of Brutality. by Fink, Jonathan.;
When Jonathan Fink studied Russian in university, he developed a passion for the country that seemed under Boris Yeltsin to throw off the shackles of repression. Thirty years later, he set out to uncover through interviews the real heart of Russia, a country besieged by unfathomable terrorism and deep-seated paranoia and where crime is scarcely ever met with punishment. 'The Dark Heart of Russia' shows that there is a need to look at the Kremlin's deeds and ignore their words as a rule to get to the truth. Contributors include Bill Browder, David Petraeus, and Luke Harding.Library Bound Incorporated
Subjects: HISTORY; HISTORY / Russia & the Former Soviet Union;
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Crepe factor / by Childs, Laura,author.; Moran, Terrie Farley,author.;
"The holidays are a busy time for scrapbook shop owner Carmela Bertrand--but not so hectic that she doesn't have time to enjoy browsing the booths at the Winter Market with her best friend Ava. The last thing the ladies expect to see is a thrashing man stabbed by a serving fork, dying in front of them. The victim is loathed restaurant critic Martin Lash, who posted his scathing reviews on the Glutton for Punishment website. And the prime suspect is New Orleans restaurateur Quigg Brevard--who was seen giving the critic a tongue-lashing minutes before someone stuck a fork in him. An old flame of Carmela, Quigg asks for her help, which does not please her current beau, Detective Edgar Babcock, to say the least. Before her relationship is the next victim, Carmela needs to find a murderer who had no reservations about punishing the culinary curmudgeon ..."--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Bertrand, Carmela (Fictitious character); Murder; Scrapbooking; Women detectives;
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Keep quiet / by Scottoline, Lisa.;
"Jake Whitmore is enjoying a rare bonding moment with his sixteen-year-old son, Kurt, when disaster strikes. They get in a terrible car accident that threatens to derail not only Kurt's chances at college, but his entire future. Jake makes a split-second decision that saves his son from formal punishment, but plunges them both into a world of guilt, lies, and secrecy. Just when Jake thinks he has everything under control, a malevolent outsider comes forward with the power to expose Jake's secret and taunts him to the breaking point. Keep Quiet is the powerful and gut-wrenching tale of the unraveling--and the ultimate redemption--of a family"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Suspense fiction.; Family secrets; Fathers and sons; Life change events; Teenage boys; Traffic accidents;
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I will find you / by Benedis-Grab, Daphne.;
"Nicky has disappeared! Oliva, Leo, and Gracie--three seventh graders who have very little in common except for how much they dislike Nicky, the school bully--were the last ones to see him. They are sure that there are clues the police are overlooking. And they each have their own secret reason for needing to find him as soon as possible. As they investigate, they discover that things are more complicated than they had seemed. Nicky's victims made a plan to get revenge on him--a plan that's gone terribly wrong. Can they find out where Nicky is before it's too late? Mystery, thrilling twists, and spot-on friendship dynamics combine to make this a page-turning read and a thoughtful look at bullying, revenge, and the true meaning of punishment and forgiveness."--
Subjects: Missing children; Bullies; Middle school students; Secrecy; Revenge; Schools;
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New tricks. [videorecording] / by Armstrong, Alun.; Block, Simon.; Bolam, James,1938-; Cronk, Gina.; East, Jon.; Fisher, Nic.; Hume, Alison.; McCrery, Nigel.; McHale, Tony.; Mitchell, Roy.; Payne, Jamie.; Phipps, Martin.; Redman, Amanda,1959-; Seed, Paul.; Waterman, Dennis,1948-; BBC Video (Firm); BBC Worldwide Americas, Inc.; British Broadcasting Corporation.; Wall to Wall (Firm); Warner Home Video (Firm);
Music, Martin Phipps.Amanda Redman, James Bolam, Alun Armstrong, Dennis Waterman.As punishment for messing up a kidnap rescue and shooting a dog in the process, Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman is re-assigned to the newly created unsolved murder squad. Due to a manpower shortage her team is made up of veteran detectives brought back onto the police force, bringing a 1970's mentality to modern policing. The team's first case is to re-investigate a twenty year old murder conviction which has suddenly come into question due to police corruption. Sifting through the lies, dubious motives and the police cover up during the first investigation, the unorthodox methods of the dinosaur detectives eventually discover what really happened twenty years ago. In the process, the squad clears up two murders and an armed robbery.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.DVD, region 1, widescreen presentation ; Dolby digital stereo.
Subjects: Cold cases (Criminal investigation); Criminal behavior; Detective and mystery television programs.; Police corruption; Police; Policewomen; Television cop shows.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.;
© c2009., BBC Video ; Distributed by BBC Worldwide Americas ; Distributed by Warner Home Video,
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A man at arms : a novel / by Pressfield, Steven,author.;
"From the bestselling author of Gates of Fire comes an historical epic about the early years of the Roman Empire. A Man at Arms is a Western set in Jerusalem and the Sinai desert in the first century AD, a few years after the crucifixion of Jesus of Nazareth. The villains are the Romans. They're in pursuit of a courier bearing an incendiary letter from Paul the Apostle. For agents of Rome, this letter represents an existential threat that will propagate a new faith and a new form of resistance among those who suffer under the heel of the Roman Empire. The Romans hire a mercenary named Telamon, formerly of the Roman Tenth Legion, to interdict and destroy the letter. Telamon only fights for money. He's been guaranteed a rich reward, but he must not fail because the punishment for failure is death by crucifixion"--
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Mercenary troops;
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